He was born in Oparic on 3^rd May 1935. He lives and works in Begaljica near Belgrade.

Loneliness, 1986
oil-canvas, 46x33cm

The subjectivity of his artistic personality is visible in the specific way he materializes the visions of his suppressed emotions. The fiction of subconscious is the source of his creative imagination while the tabooed milieus and the description of abstractness reveal his emotions.
The colorization is strongly related to the themes: he starts with characteristic moves made with his fingers, with raw paint, and later on he completely fills the form with some chromatic signs thus enlivening the structure of the material …
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… I started drawing in 1955. Paints were too expensive for me at that time but I managed to get them somehow. I managed to make a few oil paintings …
Milosav Jovanovic, Autobiography
From the documentation of the MNA
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He has had one-man shows in Belgrade, Zagreb, Zemun, Milan, Berlin, Karlovac, Jagodina …
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Pain, 2001,
oil-cardboard, 51x35cm

Monographic catalogue:
Marica Vračević, Milosav Jovanović, MNU Jagodina, 1992
Nina Krstić, Milosav Jovanović, MNU Jagodina, December 2003

Encyclopaedias on naive art:
Bihalji Merin, O., Naive artists of the world, Mladost, Zagreb1972
Boskovic, M., Masirevic, M., Self-taught artists in Serbia, Torino 1977
Tomasevic, N., Yugoslav naive painters, Belgrade 1978
Dimitrijevic, K., Naive art in Yugoslavia, Belgrade 1979
Boskovic, M., Masirevic, M., A Monograph, MNA Jagodina 1979
Bihalji Merin O., Tomasevic N., Encyclopaedia of Naive Art, Belgrade 1984
Krstic N., on Milosav Jovanovic in: Serbian Naive Art, Belgrade 1993
N. Krstić, Milosav Jovanović in: Naive Art in Serbia, Belgrade 2003

An Evening, 1973/4,
oil-canvas, 50x70cm

A stork, 1969,
oil-canvas, 50x61cm